It is not certain if John S. Corzine will ever do the perp walk - or even be compelled to answer questions - for his role in the disappearance of over a billion dollars in the MF Global swindle.

The House Financial Services Committee, however, has started a laborious investigation process, no matter how timidly. It has asked Corzine to testify about the collapse of MF Global and the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money that mysteriously went missing.

"Uh, pardon me M. Corzine, but me and the fellas up on the hill, we were wondering if, it wasn't too much trouble, that maybe you could take some time and, uh, you know, swing by and confirm that mistakes were made. But only if you really want to!"

Mr T continue not to credit the people that actual have thoughts and make actual posts....

she/he/it states:

Teresita said...It is not certain if John S. Corzine will ever do the perp walk - or even be compelled to answer questions - for his role in the disappearance of over a billion dollars in the MF Global swindle.

Not a byline.... Not a hyper link....

Just theft....

Try going here to read the author's own words...

Corzine May Skate in MF Global Swindle

By Kurt NimmoIt is not certain if John S. Corzine will ever do the perp walk - or even be compelled to answer questions - for his role in the disappearance of over a billion dollars in the MF Global swindle.

The House Financial Services Committee, however, has started a laborious investigation process, no matter how timidly. It has asked Corzine to testify about the collapse of MF Global and the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money that mysteriously went missing.

It should be noted that Corzine will not be compelled to answer questions or even respond to the request by the House Financial Services Committee. If push comes to shove, the committee has the power to subpoena Corzine and his underling, Bradley Abelow, the firm's chief operating officer. It has yet to say one way or the other if it intends to do this.

The FBI and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are now involved finding out what happened. An investigation may take months - long enough for the scandal to fall out of view so it can be swept conveniently under the rug.

On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company’s manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a rental car without a tag.

The police officer asked the man for his license, but the only paperwork he had with him was a German I.D. card. Anywhere else in the nation, the cop might have issued the man a citation. Not in Alabama, where a strict new law requires police to look into the immigration status of people detained for routine traffic violations. Because the man couldn’t prove he had the right to be in the U.S., he was arrested and hauled off to the police station.

The businessman turned out to be an executive with Mercedes-Benz, one of Alabama’s prized manufacturers, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Nov. 28 issue. The Mercedes plant employs 3,400 people, and the company’s much-heralded decision in 1993 to build cars in the state encouraged Hyundai, Honda, and Toyota to follow.

Mercedes has downplayed the incident, calling it “unfortunate” and refusing further comment. Yet word of the arrest spread quickly through the state, amplifying a growing sentiment among many politicians, business owners and citizens that the immigration law, intended to drive off undocumented workers and free up jobs for the unemployed, is too strict and damages Alabama’s reputation as a place to do business.

“I was really embarrassed and overwhelmed,” says state Senator Gerald Dial. “Mercedes has done more to change the image of Alabama than just about anything else. We don’t want to upset those people.”

The unintended consequence of bad law, it's funny stuff, when viewed from afar.

I just quoted two paragraphs from Kurt Nimmo's article, under Fair Use. What is "Obstetrician" quoted the whole fucking thing and now anybody can read it without paying M. Nimmo. "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

"Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outsideAnd it is ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin."

Italian 2-, 5- and 10-year government bond yields soared above the 7% level ahead of a closely-watched auction of six-month Treasury bills. The 10-year yield IT:10YR_ITA +8.14% was seen at 7.31%, up 35 basis points, according to FactSet Research

It is perplexing as the Euro is virtually a reserve currency, as is the USD. The latter exists quite happily in spite of trillions being printed. It is as if no damage has been done by all the QE, yet the European economy is comparable in size to the US economy. Furthermore, Euro's current exchange rates represent an appreciation by 14% and 23% with respect to USD and GBP respectively since 1999. So we might see worldwide financial and economic armageddon, but when the dust settles, the euro would still exist and people would still use it for daily life.

Death of the Euro, Is the pessimism on the Euro a bit overdone? Don't be so sure.

What is "obfuscation"What is "objection"What is "obligation"What is "oblivion"What is "obsession"What is "obstruction"What is "olfaction"What is "opinion"What is "ossification"What is "overcaution"What is "overcorrection"What is "overexaggeration"What is "overexertion"What is "overexpansion"What is "overinflation"What is "overmedication"What is "overprotection"What is "overreaction"What is "oversimplification"

What is "overstimulation" said:As for your attempt at a personal attack about Jefferson Davis?

try learning about the man, he was cut from a much better cloth than you

Yes, I know. Lesbonains are all about flannel, but Jeff....Jeff...

JEFF IN PETTICOATS Words by Henry Tucker Music by George Cooper

Jeff Davis was a hero bold,You've heard of him, I know,He tried to make himself a kingWhere southern breezes blow;But "Uncle Sam," he laid the youthAcross his mighty knee,And spanked him well, and that's the endOf brave old Jeffy D.

This Davis, he was always fullOf bluster and of brag,He swore, on all our Northern walls,He'd plant his Rebel rag;But when to battle he did go,He said, "I'm not so green,To dodge the bullets, I will wearMy tin-clad crinoline."

CHORUS

Now when he saw the game was up,He started for the woods,His bandbox hung upon his armQuite full of fancy goods;Said Jeff, "They'll never take me now,I'm sure I'll not be seen.They'd never think to look for meBeneath my crinoline."

CHORUS

Jeff took with him, the people say,A mine of golden coin,Which he, from banks and other places,Managed to purloin;But while he ran, like every thief,He had to drop the spoons.And maybe that's the reason whyHe dropped his pantaloons.

CHORUS

Our Union boys were on his trackFor many nights and days,His palpatating heart it beat,Enough to burst his stays;Oh! what a dash he must have cutWith form so tall and lean;Just fancy now the "What is it?"Dressed up in crinoline!

CHORUS

The ditch that Jeff was hunting for,He found was very near;He tried to "shift" his base again,His neck felt rather queer;Just on the out-"skirts" of a woodHis dainty shape was seen,His boots stuck out, and now they'll hangOld Jeff in crinoline.

What is "obfuscation"What is "objection"What is "obligation"What is "oblivion"What is "obsession"What is "obstruction"What is "olfaction"What is "opinion"What is "ossification"What is "overcaution"What is "overcorrection"What is "overexaggeration"What is "overexertion"What is "overexpansion"What is "overinflation"What is "overmedication"What is "overprotection"What is "overreaction"What is "oversimplification"

If the reader wishes to know the originating source, well, they can cut and paste, too.

Given some of the sources you have used rat, I can see where you would take this stand.

:)

Fact is, in exemplum, Sam is a prolific poster and a great guy but I ignore most of his posts (other than the jokes and the videos of course) because he provides neither links nor attribution. Without either, there is no way of judging the biases of the author.

I think Ms. T has the better of the argument by providing a link to the entire work in question since it provides much more context than just the author's name.

Likewise, clicking on a link is much easier than cut-and-past and dig through Google entries.

I have no idea about what is happening in Europe. It is weird. Italian debt went over 8%. US equities went up before they quit and retreated 5% for the week. Perhaps something spectacular is planned and happening, but I have no idea what that could be.

You can count on one thing. The Obama Administration will never learn.

The White House has called for the Egyptian military to surrender all power immediately to a new civilian government that is due to be elected within the next few days.

In a marked increase of pressure on the ruling generals after days of hesitancy, Washington appears to have withdrawn its support for the army to retain a significant political role after next week's parliamentary elections.

The White House said it is confident that the political crisis will be resolved. "Egypt has overcome challenges before and will do so again. The United States will continue to stand with the Egyptian people as they build a democracy worthy of Egypt's great history," it said.

It is deeply regrettable that Iran may one day join the not-so-exclusive club of nations that possess nuclear weapons. It is a potential danger the world doesn’t need. If you’ll forgive an outburst of preposterous idealism, it would be kind of neat to have a world with no nuclear arms whatsoever.

But for the life of me I don't see how the world convinces Iran it’s not entitled to such weapons when Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, India, China, the United States, France, Britain and Israel all have them.

Iranians look at the map and the questions become even more pointed. Nearly half the nuclear countries are in their ‘hood or within easy shooting distance. This includes Russia, Pakistan, India and Israel. The region is astonishingly dangerous for everyone, but not least for Iran. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, repeatedly describes Iran as the greatest threat to security in the world. This is political bombast masquerading as statesmanship. "

Europe will, sooner than later, have to decide if it will be a group of Sovereign Countries, with their own sovereign currencies, or if it will be a "United States of Europe" (ie, One Country with one currency.)

“Eurozone leaders were tonight looking again to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help countries in distress as bond yields in Italy and Spain hit new highs and the credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Belgium.”

The IMF has $400 billion to loan, and it all comes with austerity strings. That might take care of Greece and Portugal, but Belgium is just beyond reach and Italy is right out. Paul Krugman’s advice is, of course, to hell with austerity, double down with Keynesian government spending. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Meanwhile, in California, Jerry Brown is moving forward on building his $100 billion rail line between the bok choy farms of Bakersfield and the snow pea farms of Modesto, California, which is already served by I-5 and Highway 99.

The muzzie bros have played it smart. Hunkered down all this time, bidding time, now when they see they might get what they want all the vile wicked shit comes out - "Kill all the Jews" they shout.

It's always the same. The following is from Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne, a delightful eccentric English writer of 360 or so years ago, about 1650CE, which I am rereading to my pleasure.

"The Alcoran of the Turks (I speak without prejudice) is an ill-tempered piece, containing in it vain and ridiculous errors in philosophy, impossibilities, fictions, and vanities beyond laughter; maintained by evident and open sophisms, the policy of ignorance, deposition of universities, and the banishment of learning: this hath gotten foot by arms and violence: that without a blow hath disseminated itself through the whole earth.

Reminds one a little of Churchill's opinion of the 'Turks' so many centuries later.

If you think some cell phones and big screen tvs are going to moderate these folks I do think you are wrong.

I feel great about the chance for enhanced trade with the Asian/Pacific Nations, and I feel great that the administration is finally starting to push back a little bit against the mercantilist Chinese.

The message from Israel's new prime minister is stark: if the Obama administration doesn't prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, Israel may be forced to attack.

An Atlantic exclusive, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011

By JEFFREY GOLDBERGThis story has been updated on Jeffrey Goldberg’s blog in response to some controversy that it generated.

In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons—and quickly—or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.

“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a “hinge of history” and added that “Western civilization” will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

In unusually blunt language, Netanyahu said of the Iranian leadership, “You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.”

What a mess.

Can you imagine the ramifications of $150 oil at this time? I was thinking about the lies and liars that dragged us into a war with Iraq because of the existential threat of Saddam. One trillion dollars later and we are scurrying to get our troops out before the next preordained existential fright fight begins,

The only Republican opposed to a US involvement with a preemptive strike against Iran is Ron Paul. It is anyone’s guess what Obama believes in. I am not voting for anyone that is pledged to subordinate American interests to anything that will guarantee that the majority of Americans become poorer.

The Gingrich ploy to get the Hispanic vote will garnish him about 25% of that voting bloc with 75% opposed. Romney has pledged to break in his first trip on Air Force One to Israel. The Jewish vote will go against any Republican by at least 70%. In Romney’s case because he is a Mormon, he will get less. What candidate is there that puts American domestic interests first and tells Netanyahu to take care of his own business if he thinks he can handle it?

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, recently warned that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would undermine stability in the Middle East and endanger the lives of Americans in the Persian Gulf.

Netanyahu offered Iran’s behavior during its eight-year war with Iraq as proof of Tehran’s penchant for irrational behavior. Iran “wasted over a million lives without batting an eyelash … It didn’t sear a terrible wound into the Iranian consciousness. It wasn’t Britain after World War I, lapsing into pacifism because of the great tragedy of a loss of a generation. You see nothing of the kind.”

Netanyahu knows damn well that is not the case. He also knows that most in the US Congress are too stupid and intellectually lazy to check the actual facts that it was Saddam who attacked Iran.

Any honest student of history would ask themselves, "if Iran had a nuclear weapon would Saddam have attacked and killed one million Iranians?” Surely the Iranians have asked themselves the same question.

The only way that Netanyahu has an even chance of destroying Iranian nuclear capabilities on a temporary basis is if he drags the US Air Force into the action. He knows that if his adventure goes wrong, he can count on his US network of Israeli firsters to put unbearable pressure on Congress and Obama to bail him out. The sad fact is that he is right. He can do it and would do it.

Deuce: He knows that if his adventure goes wrong, he can count on his US network of Israeli firsters to put unbearable pressure on Congress and Obama to bail him out. The sad fact is that he is right. He can do it and would do it.

“You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.”

Netanyahu

Makes perfect sense to me. But, deuce is probably right, it's gone so far now it would be hard to stop.

Should have listened to me years ago and attacked then, the USA, Israel, maybe even Saudi.

If human beings weren't so damned 'open' and able to believe every last idiocy to come down the road.....

Where the various tax/spending cut proposals would have (or will) get us.

Hard to judge what assumptions went into the numbers. (For instance, at the time of the negotiations, I thought the Obama/Boehner plan was supposed to come up to a total of $4 trillion in debt reduction.)

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.